Bill Text: AZ SB1421 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Duty to retreat; repeal

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-05 - Senate read second time [SB1421 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2024-SB1421-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: duty to retreat; repeal

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SB 1421

 

Introduced by

Senators Hernandez: Gabaldón, Hatathlie, Mendez, Sundareshan;  Representatives Ortiz, Sandoval, Seaman, Villegas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 13-405, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to justification.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 13-405, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-405. Justification; use of deadly physical force

A. A person is justified in threatening or using deadly physical force against another:

1. If such the person would be justified in threatening or using physical force against the other under section 13-404, and

2. When and to the degree a reasonable person would believe that deadly physical force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly physical force.

B. A person has no duty to retreat before threatening or using deadly physical force pursuant to this section if the person is in a place where the person may legally be and is not engaged in an unlawful act. END_STATUTE